USB 2.0 to IDE Drive Adapter $14

[Devil2U]

PC Micro Store has a PCMS USB 2.0 to IDE Drive Adapter for $13.99 with FREE SHIPPING!

Drives up to 400GB are supported.

http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=p:10501935


I have one of these and it works great. Perfect if you have some hard drives lying around that you want to make better storage use of. Great for back-ups and offline storage needs.

Credit for the deal goes to DealNews: http://dealnews.com/deals/PCMS-USB-2-0-...Drive-Adapterfor-14-shipped/99034.html

 

[Crucial]

I almost bought one of these for $27.99 earlier. Thanks for the deal.

 

[Souka]

As a tech, I prefer this design from Bytecc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101

it doesn't require a circuit board for 3.5"/5.25" IDE devices... rather, its double-sided one side for 2.5" laptop drives, other for regular 40-pin IDE 3.5" on up.


But, for $14 or $20(+5s/h), you can't go wrong with either.


My $.02

 

[Guild]

Originally posted by: Souka
As a tech, I prefer this design from Bytecc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156101

it doesn't require a circuit board for 3.5"/5.25" IDE devices... rather, its double-sided one side for 2.5" laptop drives, other for regular 40-pin IDE 3.5" on up.


But, for $14 or $20(+5s/h), you can't go wrong with either.


My $.02

thanks for the link and info! This is going in my box of goodies.

 

[Devil2U]

I just noticed this...

In stock: 3200

Holy crap!

 

[linjy2]

thanks op, bought one.

 

[czech09]

I'd buy one but I prefer external enclosures so I'll pass...

 

[ynotravid]

Just ordered one. Nice deal.

 

[mboy]

Pickin one up msyelf.
Def will come in handy when doing some side pc work for my customers.

 

[cyberia]

I am using one of these right now to backup a fried PC's primary HD. I got mine from Geeks.com I think. It's a beautiful thing.

 

[boles]

thanks OP needed one of these for laptop drive i need to ghost....

 

[nbarb99]

Thanks - just grabbed one!

 

[baddbulldog]

thank OP!! I been looking for this exact item. Needed one that will handle all ide including 2.5".

 

[xylem]

I ordered a couple last night, and they shipped this morning. Thanks for the post.

 

[V00D00]

I bought one of these on ebay a while back. Same brand and everything. Ended up costing me something like $21 overall.

The thing that seems to be the problem with these is the low quality of the power adapter. The first one I had was just plain dead, and the next one I had overvolted from 5v to 7v and instantly killed one of my drives. Gladly it was still under warranty.

I'm still in for one because when I used it it worked so well.

Great for burning DVDs, never had a problem at 8x.

This uses the Genesis GL811E chipset just so you guys know, and has a maximum throughput of 35MB/sec.

 

[Kazuo]

Compgeeks has been known to sell these for about the same price almost all the time. I got one for $10 from them, and usually if you buy enough stuff at once, the shipping kinda goes out of the picture because they charge quite fairly on shipping by weight. Usually can get PC cases for about $12 shipped, and then anything else you get might as well be free after that since most of the weight is made up by the case

 

[tigerbait]

Originally posted by: V00D00
The thing that seems to be the problem with these is the low quality of the power adapter. The first one I had was just plain dead, and the next one I had overvolted from 5v to 7v and instantly killed one of my drives. Gladly it was still under warranty.

I just got this adapter in and I tried it on a hard drive I had. I plugged it in and immediately I heard popping and smoke came from the hard drive. One of the IC's on the bottom was actually glowing orange. I don't have a voltmeter handy to check the output of the adapter, but something definitely is up.

Conveniently, the Maxtor hard drive is 14 months old.

 

[uhohs]

:Q:Q:Q

 

[RedGSR]

Darn, it's been bumped to $17. Still a good price, but I'd feel a little cheated to buy it now.